Quotes by Popes
Top 5 Best Pope Quotes:
"God is not only true, but truth itself."
- Pope Leo XIII
"Openness to God makes us open towards the marginalized of this world, and gives us the courage to leave the confines of our own security and comfort to become bruised, hurting and dirty as we joyfully approach the suffering other in a spirit of solidarity."
- Pope Francis
"God's love calls us to move beyond fear, and it gives us the courage to continue seeking and working for the benefit of all. We ask God to give us the strength to work and to struggle for love of the common good and for those suffering the indiginities of poverty in our communities, our nation, and our global family."
- Pope Benedict XVI
"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."
- Pope John Paul II
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."
- Pope John XXIII
More Pope Quotes:
"We can be sure our beloved pope is standing today at the window of the father's house, that he sees us and blesses us."
- Pope Benedict XVI
"The future starts today, not tomorrow."
- Pope John Paul II
"Anything done for another is done for oneself."
- Pope John Paul II
"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."
- Pope John Paul II
"I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart."
- Pope John XXIII
"The family is the first essential cell of human society."
- Pope John XXIII
"God's love calls us to move beyond fear. We ask God for the courage to put on faith, hope and love as we go out into the world and become the Word in body as well as spirit."
- Pope Francis
"Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens."
- Pope Francis
"Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship."
- Pope Francis
"Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes."
- Pope Francis
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